Latest Technology News In South Africa
John Walker and a group of programmers founded Autodesk in 1982 with the aim of building software products for the emerging personal-computer market. AutoCAD, released the same year, brought computer-aided drafting to comparatively affordable microcomputers rather than requiring expensive dedicated CAD workstations.
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Nebius Group emerged in 2024 from the Netherlands-registered parent formerly known as Yandex N.V. after it completed the divestment of its Russia-based businesses. Rather than liquidating the remaining international assets, the company adopted the Nebius name and concentrated on AI infrastructure, cloud computing and a portfolio of technology businesses outside Russia.
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Nokia traces its roots to 1865, when mining engineer Fredrik Idestam established a pulp mill in Finland. The Nokia name came from a second mill built near the Nokianvirta river. Through mergers, the business eventually combined paper, rubber, cable and electronics activities long before telecommunications became its defining market.
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TE Connectivity’s roots include AMP Incorporated, founded in 1941 by brothers U.A. Whitaker and J. Allen Whitaker to develop solderless electrical connections. AMP’s crimp-style terminals and connectors simplified reliable electrical connections in mass-produced equipment.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise was created on 1 November 2015 when Hewlett-Packard separated its enterprise technology operations from the personal-computer and printer business that became HP Inc. HPE inherited servers, storage, networking, services and other enterprise assets from a corporate lineage that stretched back to Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard’s 1939 garage partnership.
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Lumentum became an independent company on 1 August 2015 when JDS Uniphase separated its Communications and Commercial Optical Products business. The new company inherited optical components for telecommunications and data networks alongside commercial laser technology used in manufacturing and other applications.
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Ding Lei founded NetEase in Guangzhou in 1997 during the early commercial expansion of the Chinese internet. The company first became known through internet services including email, portals and community products before online games became a major growth engine.
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Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc founded Datadog in 2010 after working together at Wireless Generation and seeing how difficult it was for development and operations teams to understand the same production systems. They created a cloud monitoring service that could collect metrics from increasingly distributed infrastructure and present them in one shared interface.
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Cambricon Technologies was founded in Beijing in 2016 by researchers associated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, including brothers Chen Tianshi and Chen Yunji, after years of work on processors designed for artificial-intelligence workloads. The company concentrated on specialised processor architectures for neural-network inference and training rather than general-purpose CPUs.
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Cloudflare grew from Project Honey Pot, a system Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway created in 2004 to study how spammers harvested email addresses. Prince later met Michelle Zatlyn at Harvard Business School, and the three co-founded Cloudflare in 2009. The founders wanted to move from observing malicious traffic to blocking it while also making websites faster.
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